Armenia Russian Language Unified Exam study guide
Armenia Russian Language Unified Exam · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
The Armenian Unified Exam in Russian Language is a standardized school-leaving and university-admission test used in Armenia. Candidates usually sit it at the end of secondary school, and results feed into the competitive admission process for higher-education programmes where Russian is a required or optional subject. The Armenia Russian Language Unified Exam study guide has 9 sections and about 2,261 words.
01Phonetics and Orthoepy
Phonetics studies speech sounds; orthoepy studies pronunciation norms. For the exam you need to separate letters from sounds, mark stress, and explain vowel reduction and consonant changes.
305 words, about 2 min02Lexicology and Phraseology
Lexicology deals with word meaning and the vocabulary system; phraseology deals with fixed, reproducible expressions. Candidates should recognize direct and figurative meaning, polysemy, synonyms, antonyms, homonyms, paronyms, and lexical layers such as archaisms, historicisms, neologisms, borrowings, professionalisms and dialectisms.
250 words, about 1 min03Morphemics and Word Formation
Morphemics studies meaningful parts of words: root, prefix, suffix, ending and postfix (including -ся/-сь). Word formation studies how new words are built from producing stems.
267 words, about 1 min04Morphology
Morphology covers parts of speech and their grammatical categories. For nouns: gender, number, case, declension and indeclinable nouns.
251 words, about 1 min05Syntax
Syntax studies phrases and sentences. You must find the grammatical base, distinguish subject and predicate types, identify secondary members, and classify sentences as simple or complex, one-member or two-member, extended or unextended.
253 words, about 1 min06Orthography
Orthography is the system of correct spelling. Core topics include vowels after sibilants and ц, roots with alternating vowels, prefixes pre-/pri-, раз-/роз-, ы/и after prefixes, unpronounceable consonants, double consonants, hyphenated words, не and ни with different parts of speech, н/нн in adjectives, participles and adverbs, and spelling of suffixes and endings.
236 words, about 1 min07Punctuation
Punctuation depends on sentence structure. You need commas with homogeneous members, detached definitions and circumstances, introductory words, appeals, and subordinate clauses; dashes between subject and predicate and in elliptical sentences; colons and dashes in complex non-conjunctive sentences; and punctuation in direct speech and quotations.
235 words, about 1 min08Speech Culture and Stylistics
Speech culture covers orthoepic, lexical, grammatical and stylistic norms. Stylistics studies functional styles: scientific, official-business, publicistic, colloquial and artistic.
212 words, about 1 min09Text Analysis and Reading Comprehension
Text analysis requires identifying the theme (what the text is about), the idea (what the author wants to say), the structure (introduction, main part, conclusion), and the functional-semantic type: narration, description or reasoning. Know means of cohesion - lexical repetition, pronouns, synonyms, conjunctions, word order and paragraph links.
252 words, about 1 min